On 5/18/06, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chad Smith wrote: > Sun Will Open-Source Java, Embrace Linux on Sparc the subject says "has open sourced" and the body "will open-source". for now, only one thing is real: the distribution license for *binaries* was slightly changed (and it is still restrictive)
Here's the direct quote from the article that I linked to in my original email: Sun Microsystems Inc. will make its Java software available on an
open-source basis and embrace Linux broadly on its Sparc-based computers, the company said Tuesday (May 16).
When a company announces that they will make something open source - they have, in effect, made it open source. So both terms are correct. More quotes: "We want to grow our revenue as much as possible, and that starts with
getting Java used as broadly as possible," Schwartz said following the annoucement in a keynote speech. Asked when Java would be made fully open source, Schwartz said, "The answer is as soon as possible." Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, said he could give no timetable for the process because it will involve an increasingly broad group of developers.
So, if you had simply read the article, (which is why I bothered to link to it), you would have been able to save your time and mine waiting for an answer. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ http://www.chadwsmith.com/ Got an Intel Mac Mini? Want one? http://minimacs.freepay.com/?r=29227644
